Sankar
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From my family to yours, happy Easter, Arizona! Hope everyone has a safe and fun day with your friends and family!🐰
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@ElGeFe @ShivaniM_KC 70 pounds is amazing . I lost around 25 lbs . Awesome.
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@trampolinest @ShivaniM_KC Still on Metformin, but only once a day. No more Jardiance. Oh yeah, Mounjaro's effect on my A1C and weight (70ish pound down) has been incredible. Along with some trial medicine for fatty liver, it also reverted my NASH.
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Steph you seem like a nice person so I will explain this to you
In the UK, tirzepatide has the brand name Mounjaro which is licensed for both T2D and for obesity, same doses, same pen, same name for both indications
In other countries, the obesity licence for tirzepatide is marketed as Zepbound for type 2 diabetes it’s called Mounjaro.
Zepbound and Mounjaro are brand names for the same medication ie Tirzepatide, they are identical in their effects, dosing etc
So your original reply to my case was factually incorrect.
Steph@canada_bear
@ShivaniM_KC I only have T2D, take Mounjaro and work in healthcare. But sure. I know nothing about any of that.
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@ElGeFe @ShivaniM_KC Are you still taking Jardiance and metformin? A1c of 5 is amazing, congratulations! Have you noticed how lower sugar spikes make our life better!
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@trampolinest @ShivaniM_KC My insurance denied my Mounjaro, asking for a more in depth justification other than just T2D. My doctor sent them my A1C value of 8+ while on Jardiance + Metformin for a year. This delayed my Mounjaro for over 3 months. My A1C just hit 5 after 21 months.
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@Kotravan20 Hi, I can speak as one who grew up in Kerala. We don’t really have an opinion.
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Are the Tamil speaking brahmins in Kerala usually anti-Malayalam anti-Malayali and anti-Keralam?
I ask this because the ones in TN are usually anti-Tamil anti-Tamils and anti-Tamil Nadu
Anu Satheesh 🇮🇳🚩@AnuSatheesh5
Palakkad Brahmana Samooham have accepted @SobhaBJP chechi 🔥
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@NMenonRao That’s the usual reply when they did not see the passenger
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Indigo Airlines has a lot to do to improve its service. I noticed on a flight to Bangalore from Colombo that the flight attendants are not there to help senior passengers, they are distant and are not good communicators. A wheelchair passenger gets in the aircraft and the flight attendant does not help you with that passenger’s bag and when asked says she did not “see”the passenger. What kind of reply is that.
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@journalistaswin The chemparathy flowers and I think it’s a mango tree to the right. What is the raised platform with shrubs on the side?
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My maternal ancestral home in #thrithala where my mother (late) Indira and my grandmother (95) were born. The Vengalil Kundaleth is a branch of the Vengalil family that gave India the first defence minister VK Krishna Menon.
I reached here on the day of her Tithi.
Memories....
#electionwithaswin
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@ArunKrishnan_ We have Nairs living in TN for generations ..
I have never seen any one calling themselves “Malayali Nair”
It’s distasteful
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Irresponsible, illegal act.
@PMOIndia @MinOfCultureGoI @IndianEmbassyUS
Did you even consult a legal team while drafting this agreement. Ownership of the deity rests with the temple. You have no locus standi to decide to offer any loans...
India in USA@IndianEmbassyUS
Three invaluable antiquities are returning home to India from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art: a 9th-century Shiva Nataraja bronze, a 12th-century sculpture of Shiva and Uma, and a 16th-century depiction of Saint Sundarar with Paravi. An agreement to this effect was signed by Deputy Chief of Mission Amb. Namgya Khampa and NMAA Director Dr. Chase Robinson. Following provenance research into these antiquities the Museum found that they were illegally removed from India. The Shiva Nataraja bronze will remain on loan for public viewing, offering visitors insight into India’s rich artistic and spiritual heritage. @NatAsianArt @ASIGoI @IndianDiplomacy @MinOfCultureGoI
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@SamaHoole I am from Kerala, raised in a vegetarian family. When everybody else eats fish, it improves the health of vegetarians.
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There is a state in India that nutritionists don't tend to talk about.
It's called Kerala.
Kerala sits on India's southwestern coast with some of the richest fish grounds in the Indian Ocean. Its people have eaten fish every day for centuries: sardines, mackerel, prawns, crab, reef fish, alongside chicken, beef, and pork depending on religion.
97% of the population eats animal protein. It is the most consistently non-vegetarian large state in India. Per-capita fish intake is second in the country.
Kerala also has:
- The highest life expectancy in India: 75.1 years
- The lowest infant mortality in India: 7 per 1,000
- The highest HDI score among Indian states, comparable to Mexico and Cuba
- One of the highest percentages of 25-year-old men over 6 feet tall
- Near-100% institutional births
- Female life expectancy that exceeds male life expectancy, as in developed countries
The vegetarian states with their lentils and their paneer are watching from three to four places below on every health metric.
The fish is in the curry.
The evidence is on the table.
Nobody is looking at the table.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
"The Indian states with the most vegetarians produce the tallest and healthiest people. Plant-based diets work." Punjab is the third-most vegetarian state in India. It also has the highest dairy consumption in the country: milk, ghee, yoghurt, paneer. "That's still plant-based." It's dairy. Daily. In significant quantities. "Dairy is plant-based adjacent." Dairy is an animal product. It contains animal protein. It drives IGF-1. It is categorically not plant-based. "OK but they don't eat meat." They don't eat meat AND they consume very high amounts of dairy. Their height and health outcomes are consistent with high animal protein intake. If you remove the dairy from these populations and replace it with lentils, I promise you the height outcomes change. The dairy is doing the work. The absence of meat is irrelevant.
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Name a human invention that has saved more lives than vaccines
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@sarscov22019 I thought Raju Narayanaswamy also had JEE first rank, but it looks like he got it for IAS
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@Fintech03 That is amazing. I feel it shows Tagore-ji understood his audience and knew what will grab their attention and interest. True hallmark of a genius
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There are actually 2 different Gitanjalis, & the 1 that won the prize is a curated ghost of the original.
The 1910 Bengali original has 157 poems. The 1912 English version (which won the Nobel) has only 103. But here is the twist, only 53 of those 103 poems are actually from the original Gitanjali. The other 50 were taken by Tagore from his other books like Gitimalya, Naivedya, Kheya, Chitra, Kalpana, & a few from Mansī, Sonar Tori, etc.
Tagore chose only the most spiritual & mystic poems for the West, leaving out the more radical, social, & complex Bengali verses. The Nobel was actually won by a Remix :)
The Nobel Prize@NobelPrize
Have you read literature laureate Rabindranath Tagore's 'Gitanjali'? 'Gitanjali' from 1910 is one of Tagore's most famous literary works. His poetry is felt to convey the peace of the soul in harmony with nature. #WorldPoetryDay
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@trampolinest @flyingpebbles Wherever hindu temples are there and rocks have to be glued ... this is an ancient INDIAN process ... nothing specific to dogsown country ..
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@flyingpebbles this is prevalent throughout Indian temples all over India ... nothing specific to Karela ...
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@TheKochukudy Padmanabhapuram palace is under the control of Kerala archaeological department or was when I visited decades ago. It is my mother’s hometown
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Happened to be in Kayamkulam today and spent some time at the magnificent Krishnapuram Palace dating back to Marthanda Varma’s reign, the only palace that stays true to Kerala’s traditional architecture without Western influences-after we lost Padmanabhapuram Palace to Tamil Nadu
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